Vehicle-brake



(No Model.)

J. F. SHEPARD. VEHICLE BRAKE.

No. 518,928. Patented Apr.r 24, 1894.

llllllll IIIIIIH'IIHIIII UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. SHEPARD, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,928, dated April24,1894.

Application led October 6,1893. Serial No. 437,376. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SHEPARD, of the city and county of Jackson,State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Device for OperatingBrakes Upon Vehicles or any Wheeled Conveyance Requiring the Use ofBrakes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved attachment for operating brakes, andupon vehicles, is attached to the hounds or under gearing, and isoperated in connection with a brake beam, or other device for arrestingby friction, the motion of the wheels, and the object ot my invention isto secure greater leverage power in applying the brake, combined withsimplicity and cost of manufacture, and its adaptability for applianceto any stylefof brake. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l. shows topview of device attached to gearing. Fig. 2. shows side view of the same.

Fig. 3. shows top and end View of plates be on its opposite edges of awidth less than the width of the bar.

E E are plates arranged above and below the rack bar and havingcentra/.l grooves in which the bar, on either side of the teeth, worksand is closely held. These plates are xedly secured to a stationary partof the vehicle and have pivotally secured at their opposite ends thelevers F which are formed with segmental racks on their inner endsmeshing with the racks on the rack bar. The

In a wagon brake, the ycombination with a fixed portion ot' a vehicle,of a brake beam extending across the vehicle and carrying shoes on itsends, a draw bar centrally secured to the beam and extending back, itsrear end being provided with a rack bar having side racks of a widthless than the bar, a top and bottom plate E having grooves therein inwhich the rackbar is closelyytitted, brake levers pivoted to the outerends of the plates and extending in between the same and havingsegmental racks on their inner ends meshing with the racks on the rackbar, and the actuating rod and lever for the brakes, substantially asdescribed.

JOHN F. SHEPARD.

Witnesses: r

HENRY S. BUTTS, R. D. KNowLEs.

